Linus holds the fort

The ratties are off to the vet again. Now that Kimi's sore foot has cleared up and he's prancing around again, Linus has turned up a little lump around his left hind leg... I don't know what to think, so haven't thought about it much, but a visit to the vet is probably the best thing we can do now.

Perhaps I shouldn't have called and made the appointment with Kimi on my lap, nor should i have told him why we were going back to the doctor because he must've told Linus. The boys were given free rein in the living room this morning, and when Bear went in to offer them some lemon sugar pancake, he found them both in the fort, and Kimi, ever alert to the presence of food, stuck his nose out a window for his pancake, which was quickly followed by Linus' nose. Linus surprisingly didn't accept his pancake, but, having assessed the situation, proceeded to stuff paper towels through the window to block it off. Bear then tried to offer the pancake through the main entrance, which was finally accepted by Linus, but then immediately followed by a stuffing of paper towel to seal off that entrance. Two seconds later, some extraneous paper towel was removed from the main entrance blockade and emerged upstairs, stuffed into the entrance to the second level of the fort.

It's not the most thorough job, several of the windows are still unsealed, but i think his intentions are clear.